The short film - and others from students, faculty and people outside the university - will be screened next week during AniFest, an annual film festival highlighting computer animation and graphics.

The festival will feature technology that produced computer animated films like "The Incredibles," "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo."

This year's festival will be from April 25 through April 27 in the student center on WestConn's midtown campus at 181 White St. The festivities last from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

The festival will feature short films created by staff and students. Also,
Juan Carlos Navarro Carrion
, an animator with Blue Sky Studios - the company behind "Ice Age" and "Robots" - will host a discussion on animation at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the student center.

All the events will be free and open to the public.

Setaro worked on "Night of the Living Soda Bottle" for two months during the fall semester. Setaro and three other students - Christian Benyei,
Michael Apps
and Sheetal Kantawala - did everything from drawing story boards (illustrations that serve as a shot-by-shot blueprint for the movie) to using software to create the five-minute film.

The story is relatively simple. A female red soda bottle wanders through a spooky house when she encounters a green soda bottle who has returned from the dead.

The green bottle lumbers after the red bottle in an attempt to drink her.

His inspiration for the film came from a love of zombie films mixed with circumstance.

"The basic assignment was to take static objects that don't move and create personalities for them," Setaro said. "And we needed to have an antagonist and a protagonists. When I was given the assignment, I happened to be drinking a bottle of soda. It was a whole long process to put together, starting with story boards and a bunch of illustrations," he said.